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• Bombay is energetic, exuberant, sparkling, and has building stones of many kinds and colours ... on your dyspeptic days you are apt to find ... Bombay's [architecture] bumptious, even riotous. .In your more genial moments you might apply the adjective ...^ Coleman, are you saying that the ordinance was fine as long as it applied to retailers in other wards, but not when it came to your own?
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  ^ Tell me/us more about this band of yours, if you don't mind.
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  ^ "More than anything else, I try to play music that moves you, whether it's a song that makes you jump with joy or one that rips your heart out."
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  • John Begg, Consulting Architect to the City of Bombay, circa 1920.
• Bombay was central, had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities.^ The late 1970s witnessed a construction boom and a significant influx of migrants, which saw Bombay overtake Calcutta as India’s most populous city.
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  ^ For most people in India, the betrothal of the young couple and the exact date and time of the wedding are matters decided by the parents in consultation with astrologers.
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  ^ In addition to being in Bombay, the central family are Parsis, Indian practitioners of Zoroastrianism.
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  .In Bombay all Indias met and merged.^ The three different presidency or regional postal systems merged in 1854 to facilitate uniform methods of communication at an all-India level.
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  .In Bombay, too, all-India met what-what-not-India, what came across the black water to flow into our veins.^ The main item of contention is the Farakka Barrage, where the Ganga divides into two branches and India has built a feeder canal that controls the flow by rechanneling water on the Indian side of the river.
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  ^ The Brahmaputra has the greatest volume of water of all the rivers in India because of heavy annual rainfall levels in its catchment basin.
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  ^ Harnessing the waters of the major rivers that flow from the Himalayas is an issue of great concern in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh.
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  .Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it was South.^ A 1992 study of India's population notes that India has more people than all of Africa and also more than North America and South America together.
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  ^ Most Dravidian speakers reside in South India, where Indo-Aryan influence was less extensive than in the north.
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  ^ India has thirty-five major fields onshore (primarily in Assam and Gujarat) and four major offshore oil fields (near Bombay, south of Pondicherry, and in the Palk Strait).
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  .To the east lay India’s east and to the west, the world’s West.^ Pakistan borders India to the west and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) to the east.
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  ^ Offshore Islands India's offshore islands, constituting roughly one-quarter of 1 percent of the nation's territory, lie in two groups located off the east and west coasts.
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  ^ The partition of India in 1947 established two India-Pakistan frontiers: one on the west and one on the east (East Pakistan became Bangladesh in 1971).
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  .Bombay was central; all rivers flowed into its human sea.^ The Narmada and the Tapti are the only major rivers that flow into the Arabian Sea.
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  ^ The majority of the South Asia's major rivers flow through broad, shallow valleys and drain into the Bay of Bengal.
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  ^ Its major rivers--the Godavari, the Krishna, and the Kaveri--rise in the Western Ghats and flow eastward into the Bay of Bengal.
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  It was an ocean of stories; we were its narrators, and everybody talked at once. .
  • Salmon Rushdie (in his novel "The Moor's Last Sigh")

• Bombay was the safest city in the world and it continues to be the safest.^ By that year, among cities of the world, Bombay (or Mumbai, in Marathi), in Maharashtra, ranked seventh in the world at 12.6 million, and Calcutta, in West Bengal, ranked eighth at almost 11 million.
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  • Bombay Joint Commissioner of Police D. Shivanandan, August 25, 2000.[1]

• Jewish, Portuguese, English, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh – All cultures first fused, and then exploded.^ A report released by the commission in November 1993 cited eighty Bombay police officials for "atrocities, ill treatment, collusion, and connivance" and for "being openly on the side of the Hindu aggressors" during the December 1992 Hindu-Muslim riots.
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  ^ Within Indian culture, whether in the north or the south, Hindu or Muslim, urban or village, virtually all things, people, and groups of people are ranked according to various essential qualities.
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  ^ The spread of Hindu "communal" (that is, religious) sentiment parallels a similar rise in religious chauvinism and "fundamentalist" ideologies among religious minorities, including Muslims and Sikhs.
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  .At first, the entire city united and mechanized itself – The early morning metro zoomed, the afternoon cars stuck in traffic crawled, rickshaw-pullers perspired in the evening and an army of drunken men danced at the night.^ Speaking to The Straits Times, he recalled how he was designated chief of the marine unit on his first trip to what was then still East Timor in early 2001.
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  ^ That morning, Lequi predicted a war against the state, and later that afternoon, an angry young mob attacked the Government Palace, burning cars and smashing windows.
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  .Everything appeared routinely, with the population too inured to monotony that if the environment fluctuated, the entire city would wow at its erraticism.^ "When Daley denied the Chief Medical Examiner's reports, he defined everything that the city would do on this for the next six months.
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  But if it did not, the environment would exist but without any realization. .Women would be raped, by routine; bombs will go off, by routine; Houses looted, housewives threatened, officers would be bribed and buses would be set on fire, by routine.^ Hell, I would've liked to have seen him set fire to Oprah's couch.
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  ^ Fretilin also said the Indonesians would kill us all, rape the women, if we surredered.
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  .In many years of its post-colonial existence, Mumbai seemed to acclimatize itself to its non-indulgent people by turning routines into impulsiveness, that too, by routine.^ Although to the non-Indian these rules may seem irrational and bizarre, to most of the people of India they are a ubiquitous and accepted part of life.
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  ^ Arya Nagar, Tardeo,tulasiwadi Post,mumbai-400034 map Arya Nagar Colony,tardeo,tulasiwadi Post,mumbai-400034 map Ahura Apartments map Sohail Khan map .
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  ^ Over the next thirty years, the city grew into a major urban centre, spurred by an improvement in infrastructure and the construction of many of the city's institutions.
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  • Siddharth Soni (in his novel "Made India Depraved India")

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